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Find spring constant with mass and distance?
No acceleration. I dont know how to solve this, with k = f/x none of my answers match the choices.
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- ThomasLv 76 years ago
You are alright :) You don't need acceleration, you would only need that for the kx^2/2 expression, but you are just looking for k so
F=kx, so k=F/x the F is just mg so if say you hang mass m and the spring stretches x...
k=mg/x
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